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    mark81 is offline Novice
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    Open hyperlinked word documents in read only


    I have a database with hyperlinks to open word documents on my network. If someone else has that word document open it will ask me if I want to notify or open in read only. However since upgrading to Access 2013, (from Access 2003), this sometimes freezes the database.

    I am wandering is there a way to tell Access (or Word) to open the document in read only if there is someone using it already?

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    Why would someone be using it? Are they editing it?

    If it is available to you, I would just use Active Directory to adjust the permissions for hte folder to Read Only and see if that avoids the warning from word. Another aproach would be to adjust the settings on the client machine to recognize the network path as trusted for Office docs.

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